Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt and the California Senate in Sacramento proposed separate attacks on the problem. The President, studying a report by WPA Administrator Francis Harrington and other U. S. officials, concluded that migration is a national problem now that 300,000 to 400,000 indigents wander the motorways. In the time of living men, said he, such free souls may well be required to take root at a home address (presumably in jail, if they decline to settle elsewhere). He indorsed U. S. legislation and emergency aid which would consist principally of finding jobs for migrants already in California...
...When today a British statesman [Neville Chamberlain] demands that every problem which lies in the midst of Germany's life interest first should be discussed with England, then I, too, could demand just as well that every British problem first is to be discussed with...
From then on, reported Ambassador Bowers, the Rebels' problem was not how to keep him in jail but how to keep him out. He was given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck...
...just picked his fifth wife-blonde Show Girl Yvonne Arden. Although for years Playboy Tommy has had no connection with the company from which he inherited his millions, his penchant for blondes makes frequent headlines in which he is inevitably labeled the "asbestos heir." This is one public relations problem that Johns-Manville has been unable to solve...
...less publicized public relations problem which Johns-Manville has solved is the fact that it is a "Morgan Company." Twelve years ago when the Manvilles sold control to J. P. Morgan, J-M's employes felt they had been sold down the river. Today, not only have the 10,000 workers forgotten this grievance but their company has acquired a position in the public eye as a model Big Business. Despite antitrust, anti-bigness, anti-Morgan sentiment, it alone of Big Business was held up by Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney of the Monopoly Committee as an example...